Early UHF channel 45 Youngstown, Ohio Part 2

[TimL]

December 3-9 1960-Source:TV Guide
WXTV 45 Youngstown, Oh...WKST'a ABC Affiliation had moved down the dial to Channel 33 sometime in very late 1959 or in 1960. It was decided to keep channel 45 on the air. The biggest difference aside from loss of Network hookup was that 45 had a later sign-On time (6PM)

Saturday December 3

6PM Star Showcase-Drama
6:30 Susie-Ann Sothern
7PM Movie Ghost Town-1955
8:30 Ellery Queen
9PM Tiger By The Tail-English 1957
10:30 Movie-Ghost Town 1955

Sunday December 4

6PM Star Showcase
6:30 Cannonball
7PM Movie-Running Target 1956
8:30 Stage 7-Drama
9PM Movie-Monte Carlo Story 1957
10:30 Movie-Running Target 1956

Monday December 5

6PM Hawkeye (Mohicans)
6:30 Ramar
7PM Movie-Monte Carlo Story 1957
8:30 Stage 7
9PM Movie-Running Target 1956
10:30 Movie- Monte Carlo Story-1957

Tuesday, December 6

6PM Hawkeye
6:30 Ramar
7PM Movie-Bandido-1956
8:30 New York Confidential
9PM Movie Spring Reunion 1957
10:30 Movie-Bandido 1956

Wednesday, December 7

6PM Hawkeye
6:30 Ramar
7PM Movie-Spring Reunion 1957
8:30 Susie
9PM Movie-Bandido 1956
10:30 Movie-Spring Reunion-1957

Thursday December 8

6PM Hawkeye
6:30 Ramar
7PM Movie-The Showdown 1950
8:30 Charlie Chan
9PM Movie-Shanghai Story 1954
10:30 Movie-The Showdown 1950

Friday December 9

6PM Hawkeye
6:30 Ramar
7PM Movie-Shanghai Story 1954
8:30 Man From Interpol
9PM Movie-The Showdown-1950
10:30 Movie-Shanghai Story 1954

While WXTV had a fairly decent lineup of Syndicated Shows, They were starting already to buy fewer movies-and run them 2-3 times a week..

Friday December 16, 1962 appears to be the last date WXTV-45 was carried in Cleveland's TV Guide. By now just about all Syndicated programming was gone and all that was left was a few movies and very cheap local shows..

5:45 Dusty Boyd-Children
6:15 Camera 15
6:30 45 Hop-Music
8PM Movie Sheriff of Las Vegas 1944 William Elliott Bobby (Robert?) Blake
9PM Movie-Fighting Kentuckian John Wayne, Oliver Hardy
11PM Trial At Tara-About St. Patrick Standing Trial for converting Druids to Christianity




Channel 45 remained silent from late 1962-1973 when Akron, Kent State and Youngstown State Universities appropriated channel 45, now licensed to Alliance, Ohio as WNEO-PBS WEAO-49 was added in 1975..both stations simulcast as PBS In Akron-Canton, Ohio

 

[bayusm1]

>
> While WXTV had a fairly decent lineup of Syndicated Shows,
> They were starting already to buy fewer movies-and run them
> 2-3 times a week..
>
> Friday December 16, 1962 appears to be the last date WXTV-45
> was carried in Cleveland's TV Guide. By now just about all
> Syndicated programming was gone and all that was left was a
> few movies and very cheap local shows..
Guess they were really in trouble huh?>

>
>
> Channel 45 remained silent from late 1962-1973 when Akron,
> Kent State and Youngstown State Universities appropriated
> channel 45, now licensed to Alliance, Ohio as WNEO-PBS
> WEAO-49 was added in 1975..both stations simulcast as PBS In
> Akron-Canton, Ohio
>

 

[KMRichards]

Winner of the "most obvious statement" award

> Guess they were really in trouble huh?

LOL ... it would certainly appear that they were.

Seriously, it looks to me that WXTV was one of the many early UHF failures. As was pointed out, the station did okay when it had the network affiliation, but once it had to go it alone, the cost of operation was too high.

I note that the schedule immediately after WXTV lost the ABC affiliation had an interesting schedule of movies. Whatever movie ran at 7:00 reran at 10:30, and the next night, it would be the 9:00 movie while the previous night's 9:00 movie ran at 7:00 and 10:30. With that kind of repeat schedule, it is probably safe to assume people didn't go out of their way to tune up to channel 45 on their early variable-tuning UHF sets, since it must have seemed that they were running a mere handful of movies over and over and over.<P ID="signature">______________


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